Migration Tools
Easily migrate from various HCI, virtualized, physical machines, and cloud platforms to the SmartX platform.
Overview
Agentless Migration
Agent-based Migration
FAQ
Two Tools, Choose Based on Your Needs
SmartX provides two migration tools to meet the migration requirements of different platforms.
Agentless Migration
SMTX Migration Tool
Supports migrating virtual machines running on the VMware platform to the SmartX platform with greater flexibility.
Agent-based Migration
SMTX CloudMove
Supports migration from various HCI, virtualization, physical machines, and cloud platforms to the SmartX platform, covering a broader range of scenarios.
Agentless Migration
Use Cases
VMware Virtual Machine Migration
Migrate virtual machines from VMware ESXi to SMTX OS (ELF).
Unique Advantages
Flexible Deployment. Can be deployed on either the source or the target virtualization platform.
Agentless. No agent plugins need to be installed on the VMs being migrated. Supported VM types cover mainstream operating systems including Windows and Linux.
Online Migration. VMs can remain online for most of the migration process. They only need to be powered off briefly at the end of the migration to complete data synchronization, minimizing business impact.
Time-Saving. Migrate existing workloads within limited business maintenance windows to accelerate service delivery.
Blog
Migrating VMs from VMware to Alternative Hypervisor: An Ultimate Guide
Learn about the migration principles and the entire implementation process.
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Agent-based Migration
Use Cases
HCI/Virtualization Platform Migration (V2V)
Supports migrating VMs from various HCI/virtualization platforms (Nutanix, VMware, Huawei, H3C, Sangfor, etc.) to SmartX clusters. The process does not require exporting/importing VMs, reducing storage space requirements.
Physical Machine Migration (P2V)
Supports migrating services from physical machines to SmartX clusters, compatible with common market versions of Windows and Linux.
Public Cloud "Cloud Repatriation"
Supports migrating cloud instances from public clouds (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Kingsoft Cloud, CTyun, etc.) to SmartX clusters.
Unique Advantages
Broad platform compatibility. Agent-based migration supports migration from virtualization platforms, physical machines, and public cloud platforms. They are not limited by the brand of the cloud platform's hypervisor, only requiring compatibility with the operating system, offering a wider range of applicable scenarios and stronger compatibility.
Migration without downtime. Continuously protect data (CDP) on the source host by adding source host information, enabling online migration at the whole machine level for physical and virtual machines.
Automated migration. During migration, the control center of the agent-based migration tool automatically creates target VMs in the target cluster, achieving automatic migration from the source host to the target VMs with minimal human intervention and high automation efficiency.
FAQ